How much does Carly Fiorina make? And why Tom Campbell only gave $600 to charity

GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has dropped her tax returns — it took 53 pages to hold all the digits. Actually, these are her 2008 returns; she’s filed an extension for this year. Guessing we’ll see those safely after the GOP primary.Guessing.

Bottom line: Carleton and hubby Frank Fiorina pulled down $2.75 mil in 2008 and paid in $389,000 in federal taxes. Despite the forest felled to print her forms, this wasn’t a detailed look at where the income came from other than, as the form said, “Mgmt, scientific & technical consulting.”

It wasn’t all rosy. On $11.5 million worth of stock sales she tallied $3.7 million worth of short- and long-term losses and pocketed $1.4 mil in dividends and interest. OK, that’s pretty rosy.

The larger question remains: How much is Carleton willing slice out of the $21 million golden parachute HP outfitted her with five years ago? Will she toss some ‘chute money into the race, where she is trailing Tom Campbell in most polls.

One place she isn’t trailing Campbell: charitable donations. Carleton shed $481,384 to charity in 2008, most of it in the form of 13,000 shares of HP stock to AYCO Charitable Foundation in New York. That’s the Frank and Carly Fiorina Family Fund, their foundation. She also gave nearly $5,000 worth of clothes to the Junior League of Palo Alto. (We’ll skip the jokes about rivals Campbell and OC Assemblyman Chuck DeVore shopping there; journalists shouldn’t be throwing stones from inside the fashion glass house.)

As for Campbell, despite earning from $140,283 from law professoring at Chapman University, another $13 grand from UC-Berkeley and $713,105 from serving on two corporate boards, Campbell gave only $600 to charity. And no clothes to the Junior League.

Tom, what’s up? Even some of the bums we hang out with dig in their pocket for more than six hundred bucks.

The good professor explained to us that he doubled up on his charitable gifts LAST year, when he resigned from two corporate boards — Visa International and FormFactor — that he served on. He wanted to make sure he maxed out on their matching donation programs before he left. In 2008, he donated $10,000. Ordinarily, he said he gives about $5,000 a year to charity.

“I only ask people to look at last year, too,” Campbell said. “And even that, I’m certainly going to say I could have given more.”

OC Assemblyman Chuck DeVore reported $96,524 in income and tossed $6,585 to charity.